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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Queer by William S. Burroughs The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Hiroshima by John Hersey Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Animal Farm by George Orwell American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Dark Days by James Baldwin Normal People by Sally Rooney
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James Baldwin
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin
tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind
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